Xarhtnaraelcun

U.N. Owen: what you say is so true. It seems like everyone out there has been screwed up by someone else.

I once dated this woman for a while that seemed very normal until I had her sleep over to my place. In the morning, I decided to make her breakfast and she said she liked scrambled eggs. I beat up some eggs in a Tupperware bowl and set it on the stove while I got a frying pan. She was trying to be helpful so she turned on the electric stove for me. I set the pan on the stove and started to smell something funny. Not knowing the dials on my stove, she had turned on the burner under the bowl and melted a hole in the bottom so the eggs leaked out into the space below the burner. I realized what had happened very quickly and grabbed for the bowl. She cowled down and threw up her hands and begged me not to beat her. Evidently her former boyfriend had beaten her for just about everything. I kind of laughed and told her that I was not mad at her and don’t worry about it and that I had seven other bowls just like it. She would not stop apologizing. I told her that even though my ex-wife was very trying, that I had never hit her and I had never laid a hand on any woman, for anything, but if it would make her happy, she could go to our local Tupperware lady and buy me a replacement for two dollars.
What she had done was an accident and almost humorous, so I was not angry in the least. From that moment on, she continually tried to raise the anti and do things to make me hit her. When I didn’t, she would get nasty and yell at me and say that I had no balls. Since when do you need balls to beat up a woman?
I broke off the relationship after six months, realizing that she was definitely damaged goods and she was going to push me in order to make me hit her.

I never did and never will beat up a woman, but by the same token, I never want to date a battered woman again.

DR